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How can I protect myself from the flu?
The single best way to prevent the flu is to get a flu vaccination each fall. There are 2 types of vaccines. The flue shot is an inactivated vaccine (containing killed virus) that is given with a needle. The flu shot is approved for use in people older than 6 months, including healthy people and people with chronic medical conditions. The nasal-spray flu vaccine is a vaccine made with live, weakened flu viruses that do not cause the flu (sometimes called LAIV for "Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine"). LAIV is approved for use in healthy people 5 years to 49 years of age who are not pregnant.
For more information, visit the following page: Protecting Yourself from the Flu
- How do you treat the flu?
Influenza is a virus and cannot be treated with antibiotics. Four antiviral drugs (amantadine, rimantadine, zanamavir and oseltamivir) have been approved for treatment of the flu. These medications must be prescribed by a doctor. Antiviral treatment lasts for 5 days and must be started within the first 2 days of illness.
- How is the influenza virus passed around? How does flu spread?
Flu viruses spread in respiratory droplets caused by coughing and sneezing. They usually spread from person to person, though sometimes people become infected by touching something with flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose. Most healthy adults may be able to infect others beginning 1 day before symptoms develop and up to 5 days after becoming sick. That means that you can pass on the flu to someone else before you know you are sick, as well as while you are sick.
A person can spread the flu starting 1 day before he or she feels sick. Adults can continue to pass the flu virus to others for another 3 to 7 days after symptoms start. Children can pass the virus for longer than 7 days. Symptoms start 1 to 4 days after the virus enters the body. Some persons can be infected with the flu virus but have no symptoms. During this time, those persons can still spread the virus to others.
- How many people get sick or die from the flu every year?
Each flu season is unique, but it is estimated that approximately 10% to 20% of U.S. residents get the flu, and an average of 114,000 persons are hospitalized for flu-related complications. About 36,000 Americans die on average per year from the complications of flu.
- Is it a cold or the flu?
Influenza and a cold are both respiratory (breathing) system infections caused by viruses. Initial symptoms of flu and colds are similar, and it can sometimes be difficult to tell if you have the flu or a very bad cold. The flu can cause more serious illness than a common cold. Colds and flu are both highly contagious and, in the initial stages, a bad cold and a mild case of the flu might seem alike. However, flu is a serious illness that can have life-threatening complications, including pneumonia and encephalitis. It is impossible to tell for sure if you have the flu based on symptoms alone. Doctors can perform tests to see if you have the flu within 2-3 days of the start of illness. Check the table on the following page for a comparison of the symptoms for each illness: Influenza & Cold Symptoms
- What are antiviral medications?
Three antiviral drugs (amantadine, rimantadine, and oseltamivir) are approved for use in preventing the flu. These are prescription medications, and a doctor should be consulted before they are used. Antiviral treatment lasts for 5 days and must be started within the first 2 days of illness.
- What are complications of flu?
Complications of flu can include bacterial pneumonia, dehydration, and worsening of chronic medical conditions, such as congestive heart failure, asthma, or diabetes. Children may get sinus problems and ear infections.
- What are complications of flu?
Complications of flu can include bacterial pneumonia, dehydration, and worsening of chronic medical conditions, such as congestive heart failure, asthma, or diabetes. Children may get sinus problems and ear infections.
- What are good health habits to prevent the flu?
Apart from vaccination, good health habits and antiviral medications are other measures that can help protect against the flu. Avoid close contact with people who are sick. When you are sick, keep your distance from others to protect them from getting sick too. If possible, stay home from work, school, and errands when you are sick. You will help prevent others from catching your illness.
Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick. Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs are often spread when a person touches something that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or mouth.
- What can I do to protect myself against the flu?
Certain people are at increased risk for serious complications from the flu. This group includes people age 65 years and older and people of any age with chronic medical conditions. Pregnant women and children between 6 months and 23 months of age also are at increased risk from flu complications. By far, the single best way to prevent the flu is to get a flu shot. You can also decrease your chances of getting sick by frequently washing your hands and avoiding touching your nose, eyes, and mouth, and avoiding crowded places. Three antiviral drugs (amantadine, rimantadine, and oseltamivir) are approved and commercially available for use in preventing flu. All of these medications are prescription drugs, and a doctor should be consulted before the drugs are used for preventing the flu.
Year-round, you can help stop the spread of germs by practicing "respiratory etiquette" — good health manners — by covering your nose and mouth every time you sneeze, cough or blow your nose, putting used tissues in the trash, and washing your hands well and often whenever you or someone you are close to is sick. Clinics and hospitals may also give you a face mask to wear in waiting areas and exam rooms if you have a fever and cough or rash, so be prepared! There are also ways you can keep from catching someone else's germs. These include not sharing things like cigarettes, towels, lipstick, toys, or anything else that might be contaminated with respiratory germs. You also should not share food, utensils or beverage containers with others.
- What is influenza (also called flu)?
The flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. It can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. The best way to prevent this illness is by getting a flu vaccination each fall. Every year in the United States, on average, 5% to 20% of the population gets the flu, more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu complications and about 36,000 people die from flu.
Some people, such as older people, young children, and people with certain health conditions, are at high risk for serious flu complications.
- What is the stomach flu?
Many people use the term "stomach flu" to describe illnesses with nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. These symptoms can be caused by many different viruses, bacteria, or even parasites. While vomiting, diarrhea, and being nauseous or "sick to your stomach" can sometimes be related to the flu — particularly in children — these problems are rarely the main symptoms of influenza. The flu is a respiratory disease and not a stomach or intestinal disease.
- What should you do if you get the flu?
Stay home! Rest, drink plenty of liquids, avoid using alcohol and tobacco, and take medication to relieve the symptoms of flu. Never give aspirin to children or teenagers who have flu-like symptoms – and particularly fever – without first speaking to your doctor. Giving aspirin to children and teenagers who have influenza can cause a rare but serious illness called Reye syndrome. If, however, flu symptoms are unusually severe (for example, trouble breathing), you should consult your health-care provider right away. If you are at special risk from complications of flu, you should consult your health-care provider when your flu symptoms begin. This includes people 65 years or older, people with chronic medical conditions, pregnant women, or children. Your doctor may choose to use certain antiviral drugs to treat the flu.
- What type of flu season are we going to have this year?
It is not possible to accurately predict in advance what type of flu season we are going to have. Historically, A (H3N2) viruses have been associated with more-severe flu seasons during which higher numbers of influenza-related hospitalizations and deaths have occurred.
- When should I get vaccinated?
October or November is the best time to get vaccinated, but getting vaccinated in December or even later can still be beneficial. Flu season can begin as early as October and last as late as May.
- Where can I get more information about flu vaccinations?
We will be posting information, as it becomes available, on this website. You may also call the Cape May County flu hotline at 609-463-6581. Additionally, the New Jersey State Department of Health and Senior Services has a flu hotline, at 1-866-234-0964. For more resources, visit this page: Flu Vaccination Information
- Where else can I get a flu shot?
Information on Cape May County's free flu vaccination programs is posted on the County's Department of Health website. You may also call the Cape May County flu hotline at 463-6581. Additionally, the NJ State Department of Health and Senior Services has a flu hotline, at 1-866-234-0964. For additional vaccination program information, visit this page: Vaccination Programs
- Who should get vaccinated?
To find out who should receive flu vaccinations, visit the following page: Who Should Get Vaccinated?
- Who should not get vaccinated?
To learn who should not get a flu vaccination, visit the following page: Who Should Not Get Vaccinated?
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Lenovo Group agreed to acquire Google's Motorola Mobility handset unit for $2.91 billion, as the Chinese personal-computer maker continues a buying spree of U.S. hardware companies.
The sale includes $1.41 billion in cash and Lenovo stock paid at the close of the deal, with $1.5 billion to be paid in a three-year promissory note, Google said in a statement Wednesday and according to filings. Google will retain a majority of Motorola Mobility's patent portfolio, with Lenovo receiving a license to the intellectual property.
"We will immediately have the opportunity to become a strong global player in the fast-growing mobile space," said Yang Yuanqing, chairman and chief executive officer of Lenovo, in a statement.
A deal would follow Lenovo's agreement to purchase International Business Machines' low-end server unit for $2.3 billion earlier this month. In 2005, Lenovo acquired IBM's PC division. The company has been looking to counter falling PC shipments by expanding storage equipment and the servers that run corporate networks.
Buying Motorola would give Lenovo a stronger presence in the mobile phone market in the U.S. and Western Europe. Lenovo is the fifth-largest smartphone vendor globally with a range of inexpensive handsets. It has begun to expand into premium smartphones in a bid to challenge Samsung Electronics and Apple In September, the company released the Vibe X, which runs Google Android 4.2 mobile operating system.
"They're not afraid of going out there and acquiring brands, especially to help them grow internationally," said Andrew Costello, a principal with IBB Consulting.
A sale would also let Google shed a handset business it acquired as part of a $12.4 billion deal in 2012. Buying Motorola pushed the Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet search company into hardware after 14 years in which Web advertising accounted for almost all of its revenue. It also gave Google ownership of 17,000 patents to protect devices running its Android mobile operating system in legal disputes with competitors. Google later sold part of Motorola — the set-top box business — to Arris Group.
"This move will enable Google to devote our energy to driving innovation across the Android ecosystem, for the benefit of smartphone users everywhere," said Google CEO Larry Page in a statement about the deal.
While Google has invested in Motorola, the unit's revenue has declined. Motorola's third-quarter revenue fell about one third, even as the company began selling Moto X, the first smartphone introduced under the direction of Google's leadership.
In November, the company announced it was rolling out a lower-cost smartphone called the "Moto G," which was aimed at getting customers who can't afford higher-end devices from rivals such as Apple. At the time, Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside had touted the phone as a key to winning market share.
"When we looked at the smartphone market, we actually think the industry has really failed 5 billion people," Woodside said in an interview. "With Moto G, you're going to have consumers who have not had a smartphone before."
Motorola's patents have also shown signs that they weren't a bargain. Google has lost patent cases or were delivered disappointing sums in cases that involved some of the intellectual property. Google had estimated in regulatory filings that $5.5 billion of the purchase price for Motorola was for patents and developed technology.
The deal comes two days after Google signed a patent-licensing agreement with Samsung to share their technologies. The agreement covers existing patents and those filed during the next 10 years.
Google reports quarterly earnings Thursday.
As recently as October, Page had praised Motorola's progress, pointing to the launch of its high-end "X" phone in the third quarter.
"Although it's still early days Dennis and the team have already transformed Motorola's product quality," Page said during a call with analysts in October. "Now they're working to build out marketing and distribution."
The top five global smartphone vendors in 2013 by International Data Corp.'s rankings were Samsung with a 31.3 percent market share of shipments; Apple with 15.3 percent; Huawei Technologies with 4.9 percent, LG Electronics with 4.8 percent and Lenovo with 4.5 percent

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Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/User Interface Overview
Blender's user interface (the means by which you control the software) is not particularly easy to learn. However, it has improved over time and is expected to continue doing so. The current version of the Blender software is available for download from the Blender Foundation's website.
The tutorials in this section will familiarize you with the basics of the user interface. By the end of this section, you should be able to:
- resize, split, and merge any Blender window;
- change the type of any Blender window;
- access user preferences;
- access panels containing buttons and other controls;
- change the viewpoint of a viewport.
For those new to Blender, this is a fundamental section of the book.
Advice on Customization edit
Blender is a complex software package with many customizable features. You can customize the user interface to assign new functions to buttons and hotkeys. In fact, you can change almost anything to suit yourself. However, this complicates the giving and following of directions. It is recommended you adhere to the default screen arrangements of Blender in order to be able to follow the remaining parts of these tutorials. Blender ships with 4 to 5 screen-content arrangements which are suitable for almost any kind of job you'll want to use it for - from creating motion and animation to making games.
We recommend leaving Blender's user interface in its "factory settings" while working through the Noob to Pro tutorials. At the very least, wait until you've mastered the basics before you customize the interface — and we know you definitely will when you master it!


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This post is a little belated because I've been busy traveling, but here are some reflections on my experience last month at the Voices of Our Nations (VONA) Workshop 2010, hosted at the University of San Francisco.
The program website pretty much says it all: "The VONA Voices Workshop is dedicated to nurturing developing writers of color [who] come from around the globe to work with renowned writers of color." Essentially, VONA is where you go to work with people like Junot Diaz, Chris Abani, and Suheir Hammad. Where you discover for yourself that there's a rich and vibrant tradition of writers of color in the United States and that you can situate yourself in that incredible wealth of a heritage. It's where you go to learn that you're not the only one asking the question, "Where am I from, where are my people from, and why does that matter to my writing?"
Basically, VONA is the place where you walk into a workshop, sit down and your instructor says, "So what are your ancestors telling you today?" You sit awestruck as your classmates go around the room channeling these incredibly powerful, angry voices from our nation(s)' untold histories, and what you end up with once everyone has spoken is a room of not just eleven poets, but generations of voices echoed through the sensibilities of your peers.
I attended VONA's second session, which meant that I was in LA-based poet Ruth Forman's poetry workshop, along with ten other women from around the country. Represented in our class was a wide diversity of cultural, and ethnic, and professional backgrounds — including a med student, an African Diaspora Studies Ph.D candidate, an art therapist, and a non-profit consultant… only to mention a few! Ruth fostered a warm culture of dialogue and collaboration, while advocating fiercely that we stick to June Jordan's (one of her mentors) Poetry for the People guidelines for discussing poetry.
I learned so much from Ruth, particularly in our one-on-one conference where she shared with me her understanding of what it means to be an African American poet, following in a tradition that — as she sees it — has sought always to speak against injustice, bring hope to the community, and capture the musicality of spoken (and sung) language. To hear some of Ruth's work, watch this clip of the VONA faculty reading, where she read several poems from her most recent collection, Prayers Like Shoes (Whit Press, 2009). You can also hear her on NPR, talking about her children's book Young Cornrows Callin out the Moon (Children's Book Press, 2007).
Each of VONA's two sessions featured a mid-week faculty reading. Ours was sensational – we heard from Diem Jones with musician Len Wood, Tananarive Due, Ruth Forman, M. Evelina Galang, Chris Abani, Andrew X. Pham, Willie Perdomo, and Elmaz Abinader, each of whom are incredibly accomplished artists and writers. The auditorium was packed, and because so many in the audience were VONA participants, cries of "Hey, that's my teacher!" echoed continually throughout the hall. For many of us, this was the first time we'd heard our instructors read — and the effect was magical. There they were, our workshop leaders — enacting, performing, embodying all they had been talking about in class.
On the final evening of the workshop, every VONA participant (about 80 poets and writers in all) shared 300 words of their writing. Some of it was newly written, read right off of people's laptops – or Blackberrys. Some of it was freshly revised after workshop that afternoon. All of it was raw, real, and bore witness to the tremendous weight of cultural Story represented in the room. Cave Canem fellow Tara Betts finished the evening off with a powerful, lyrical response to Wallace Stevens' infamous comment, "Who let the coon in?" when Gwendolyn Brooks arrived at the 1950 Drew-Phalen Awards banquet.
The title of Betts' poem? "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Woman." Rock on, Tara.
To Consider…
For a complete list of VONA 2010 faculty, click here. Read these writers' books, follow their blogs and, if you can, by all means study with them – or at least hear them read.
Apply to next year's Voices Workshop! The application probably won't be open for another few months, but check the website periodically if this is something you think you may enjoy participating in.
Lastly, the workshop offers limited scholarships to seminar participants, which is made possible only through the generosity of its donors. If you'd like to help support this initiative, consider donating through the program website.


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Malaysia To Hold Parliamentary Elections On May 5; Ruling Coalition Braces For Stiff Competition
Malaysia will hold general elections on May 5, the election commission announced on Wednesday, as the nation's ruling coalition for 56 years braces for a stiff competition.
The National Front led by Prime Minister Najib Razak, has been under pressure to restore the two-thirds majority the coalition lost for the first time in 2008.
Najib, the leader of the United Malays National Organization, the main party in the National Front ruling coalition, dissolved parliament last week and will serve as caretaker prime minister until the elections.
Opinion polls suggest a narrow victory for the National Front, Reuters news agency reported.
Najib's rise to power in April 2009 was marked by a government crackdown on the opposition, with allegations that coercive tactics were being used to stifle political dissent. In July 2011, a protest in the capital Kuala Lumpur calling for electoral reform was forcibly broken up by the police. However, the following month the government set up a cross-party parliamentary committee to study electoral reform.
The son of the country's second prime minister and nephew of the third, Najib is a British-trained economist.
He took over the premiership when Malaysia was hit hard by the global financial crisis, which hit its export markets hard. In March 2009 the government unveiled a $16 billion economic stimulus plan as part of the efforts to avoid plunging the country into a deep recession.
Malaysia's opposition is a broad coalition which includes moderates, Islamists and Malaysians of Chinese descent.
Anwar Ibrahim, who leads the opposition, is seen as one of the great survivors of Malaysian politics, according to the BBC. Anwar once served as deputy prime minister under the National Front, but subsequently fell out with then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who sacked his deputy and presumed successor in 1998 on charges of sexual misconduct, against the background of differences between the two men over economic policy.
Ibrahim was found guilty of sodomy in 2000 and sentenced to nine years in prison. This was added to the six-year jail sentence he was given in 1999 after he was found guilty of corruption following a controversial trial.
Ibrahim was freed in 2004 when a court overturned his sodomy conviction, after Abdullah Ahmad Badawi took over as prime minister succeeding Mahathir Mohamad.
In 2007, Ibrahim's Parti Keadilan Rakyat lost a bitterly contested by-election to the government. The following year, when Badawi's government suffered its worst election result in decades, Ibrahim was arrested again over allegations of sodomy, escalating political tensions.
In January last year a Malaysian court acquitted Ibrahim of the charges.
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New Evidence on the Relation between Trading Volume and Volatility
The paper tests the relationship between trading volume and return volatility within the scope of Mixture of Distribution Hypothesis and Sequential Information Arrival Hypothesis in Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) by using intraday data for the period between 04.02.2005 to 30.04.2010. Two sub-samples are used to consider the effect of Global crisis. The results show that findings differ across two sub-samples. The findings support the Mixture of Distribution Hypothesis in pre-crisis period. However, the evidence is mixed in crisis period. Although we reject the Mixture of Distribution Hypothesis in crisis period, we can not strongly reject the Sequential Information Hypothesis.
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Where we list some real zone files
Users have suggested that I include a real example of a working domain as well as the tutorial example.
I use this example with permission from David Bullock of LAND-5. These files were current 24th of September 1996, and were then edited to fit BIND 8 restrictions and use extensions by me. So, what you see here differs a bit from what you find if you query LAND-5's name servers now.
Here we find master zone sections for the two reverse zones needed:
the 127.0.0 net, as well as LAND-5's 206.6.177
subnet, and a
primary line for land-5's forward zone land-5.com
. Also note that
instead of stuffing the files in a directory called pz
, as I do
in this HOWTO, he puts them in a directory called zone
// Boot file for LAND-5 name server options { directory "/var/named"; }; controls { inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndc_key; }; }; key "rndc_key" { algorithm hmac-md5; secret "c3Ryb25nIGVub3VnaCBmb3IgYSBtYW4gYnV0IG1hZGUgZm9yIGEgd29tYW4K"; }; zone "." { type hint; file "root.hints"; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "zone/127.0.0"; }; zone "land-5.com" { type master; file "zone/land-5.com"; }; zone "177.6.206.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "zone/206.6.177"; };
If you put this in your named.conf file to play with PLEASE
put ``notify no;
'' in the zone sections for the two land-5
zones so as to avoid accidents.
Keep in mind that this file is dynamic, and the one listed here is old. You're better off using a new one as explained earlier.
; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> @A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; ., type = NS, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: . 6D IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 6D IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 6D IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 6D IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 6D IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 6D IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 6D IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 6D IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 6D IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 6D IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 6D IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 6D IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 6D IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 188.8.131.52 J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 22.214.171.124 K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 126.96.36.199 L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 126.96.36.199 M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 188.8.131.52 A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 126.96.36.199 H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 18.104.22.168 B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 220.127.116.11 C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 188.8.131.52 D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 184.108.40.206 E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 188.8.131.52 I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 22.214.171.124 F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 220.127.116.11 ;; Total query time: 215 msec ;; FROM: roke.uio.no to SERVER: A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 18.104.22.168 ;; WHEN: Sun Feb 15 01:22:51 1998 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 17 rcvd: 436
Just the basics, the obligatory SOA record, and a record that maps
127.0.0.1 to localhost
. Both are required. No more should be in
this file. It will probably never need to be updated, unless your
nameserver or hostmaster address changes.
$TTL 3D @ IN SOA land-5.com. root.land-5.com. ( 199609203 ; Serial 28800 ; Refresh 7200 ; Retry 604800 ; Expire 86400) ; Minimum TTL NS land-5.com. 1 PTR localhost.
If you look at a random BIND installation you will probably find
that the $TTL
line is missing as it is here. It was not used
before, and only version 8.2 of BIND has started to warn about its
absence. BIND 9 requires the $TTL
Here we see the mandatory SOA record, the needed NS records. We
can see that he has a secondary name server at ns2.psi.net
. This
is as it should be, always have a off site secondary server as
backup. We can also see that he has a master host called land-5
which takes care of many of the different Internet services, and that
he's done it with CNAMEs (a alternative is using A records).
As you see from the SOA record, the zone file originates at
, the contact person is
. hostmaster
is another oft used address for
the contact person. The serial number is in the customary yyyymmdd
format with todays serial number appended; this is probably the sixth
version of zone file on the 20th of September 1996. Remember that the
serial number must increase monotonically, here there is only
one digit for todays serial#, so after 9 edits he has to wait
until tomorrow before he can edit the file again. Consider using two
$TTL 3D @ IN SOA land-5.com. root.land-5.com. ( 199609206 ; serial, todays date + todays serial # 8H ; refresh, seconds 2H ; retry, seconds 4W ; expire, seconds 1D ) ; minimum, seconds NS land-5.com. NS ns2.psi.net. MX 10 land-5.com. ; Primary Mail Exchanger TXT "LAND-5 Corporation" localhost A 127.0.0.1 router A 18.104.22.168 land-5.com. A 220.127.116.11 ns A 18.104.22.168 www A 220.127.116.11 ftp CNAME land-5.com. mail CNAME land-5.com. news CNAME land-5.com. funn A 188.8.131.52 ; ; Workstations ; ws-177200 A 184.108.40.206 MX 10 land-5.com. ; Primary Mail Host ws-177201 A 22.214.171.124 MX 10 land-5.com. ; Primary Mail Host ws-177202 A 22.214.171.124 MX 10 land-5.com. ; Primary Mail Host ws-177203 A 184.108.40.206 MX 10 land-5.com. ; Primary Mail Host ws-177204 A 220.127.116.11 MX 10 land-5.com. ; Primary Mail Host ws-177205 A 126.96.36.199 MX 10 land-5.com. ; Primary Mail Host ; {Many repetitive definitions deleted - SNIP} ws-177250 A 18.104.22.168 MX 10 land-5.com. ; Primary Mail Host ws-177251 A 188.8.131.52 MX 10 land-5.com. ; Primary Mail Host ws-177252 A 22.214.171.124 MX 10 land-5.com. ; Primary Mail Host ws-177253 A 126.96.36.199 MX 10 land-5.com. ; Primary Mail Host ws-177254 A 126.96.36.199 MX 10 land-5.com. ; Primary Mail Host
If you examine land-5s nameserver you will find that the host names
are of the form ws_
number. As of late BIND 4 versions named
started enforcing the restrictions on what characters may be used in
host names. So that does not work with BIND 8 at all, and I
substituted '-' (dash) for '_' (underline) for use in this HOWTO.
But, as mentioned earlier, BIND 9 no longer enforces this restriction.
Another thing to note is that the workstations don't have individual names, but rather a prefix followed by the two last parts of the IP numbers. Using such a convention can simplify maintenance significantly, but can be a bit impersonal, and, in fact, be a source of irritation among your customers.
We also see that funn.land-5.com
is an alias for
, but using an A record, not a CNAME record.
I'll comment on this file below
$TTL 3D @ IN SOA land-5.com. root.land-5.com. ( 199609206 ; Serial 28800 ; Refresh 7200 ; Retry 604800 ; Expire 86400) ; Minimum TTL NS land-5.com. NS ns2.psi.net. ; ; Servers ; 1 PTR router.land-5.com. 2 PTR land-5.com. 2 PTR funn.land-5.com. ; ; Workstations ; 200 PTR ws-177200.land-5.com. 201 PTR ws-177201.land-5.com. 202 PTR ws-177202.land-5.com. 203 PTR ws-177203.land-5.com. 204 PTR ws-177204.land-5.com. 205 PTR ws-177205.land-5.com. ; {Many repetitive definitions deleted - SNIP} 250 PTR ws-177250.land-5.com. 251 PTR ws-177251.land-5.com. 252 PTR ws-177252.land-5.com. 253 PTR ws-177253.land-5.com. 254 PTR ws-177254.land-5.com.
The reverse zone is the bit of the setup that seems to cause the
most grief. It is used to find the host name if you have the IP
number of a machine. Example: you are an FTP server and accept
connections from FTP clients. As you are a Norwegian FTP server you
want to accept more connections from clients in Norway and other
Scandinavian countries and less from the rest of the world. When you
get a connection from a client the C library is able to tell you the
IP number of the connecting machine because the IP number of the
client is contained in all the packets that are passed over the
network. Now you can call a function called gethostbyaddr that looks
up the name of a host given the IP number. Gethostbyaddr will ask a
DNS server, which will then traverse the DNS looking for the machine.
Supposing the client connection is from ws-177200.land-5.com. The IP
number the C library provides to the FTP server is 188.8.131.52. To
find out the name of that machine we need to find
. The DNS server will first find the
servers, then find in-addr.arpa.
servers, following
the reverse trail through 206, then 6 and at last finding the server
for the 177.6.206.in-addr.arpa
zone at LAND-5. From which it
will finally get the answer that for 184.108.40.206.in-addr.arpa
we have a ``PTR ws-177200.land-5.com
'' record, meaning that the
name that goes with 126.96.36.199
is ws-177200.land-5.com
The FTP server prioritizes connections from the Scandinavian
countries, i.e., *.no
, *.se
, *.dk
, the name
clearly does not match any of those, and the
server will put the connection in a connection class with less
bandwidth and fewer clients allowed. If there was no reverse
mapping of 126.96.36.199
through the in-addr.arpa
zone the
server would have been unable to find the name at all and would have
to settle to comparing 126.96.36.199
with *.no
, *.se
and *.dk
, none of which will match at all, it may even deny the
connection for lack of classification.
Some people will tell you that reverse lookup mappings are only important for servers, or not important at all. Not so: Many ftp, news, IRC and even some http (WWW) servers will not accept connections from machines of which they are not able to find the name. So reverse mappings for machines are in fact mandatory.


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I've just installed SQL Server 2008 and I cannot connect to it with SQL Server Management Studio. My intention is to just let my local windows user be authenticated but I am not totally sure how to do that.
In the connect dialog I'm writing:
Server type: Database Engine
Server name: (local)
Authentication: Windows Authentication
My first question would be if that is what I should connect to? When I try to connect I get this error message:
TITLE: Connect to Server
Cannot connect to (local).
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection
to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance
name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections.
(provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)
(Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 2)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=2&LinkId=20476
I went to the URL there displayed and it just basically says "be sure SQL server is running". I think it is but I am not totally sure.
I've disabled the Windows Firewall (this is Windows 7 7100 x86). I've also changed the log on system in the SQL Server Configuration Manager but it seems it's not a problem of logging in but not even be able to open the socket to it. On that same tool I've enabled all the protocols on "SQL Server Network Configuration" -> "Protocols for SQLEXPRESS" with no luck. I run out of ideas. What else can I try?


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The fashion industry has come a long way since the supermodel era of the 1980s and '90s. Back then, the vast majority of models were thin, young and white, with a few exceptions – notably Naomi Campbell, who in 1987 became the first black British model to appear on the cover of British Vogue, and Sophie Dahl, who made her catwalk debut in 1997 when she was a UK size 14. In recent years, we're seeing more models of colour, more plus-size models, models of different ages, different gender identities, models with disabilities, with skin conditions, and those who show their scars or their body hair.
But is this a fleeting trend that will come and go faster than this season's handbag? Or is it a seismic cultural shift that will push the fashion and beauty industry in a genuinely more inclusive direction? Expanding on the theme of our
Shutter Stories
podcast about body positivity and photography, we asked Canon Ambassador Javier Cortés, photographer Linda Blacker and model and plus-size advocate Enam Asiama to share their experiences and opinions.
Hear more of the conversation in this episode of Canon's Shutter Stories podcast:


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"Clueless" star Stacey Dash is in talks to join FOX News as a regular contributor, according to Page Six.
As previously reported by NewsOne, Dash who has been developing a satirical comedy series about being Black and Republican in Hollywood, called President Barack Obama a "disappointment" and endorsed Mitt Romney as "the only choice for [the] future."
"I didn't know anything about [Obama] when I voted for him in 2008. My choice to do so was purely because he was black," Dash said in a 2013 FOX interview. "Naively, I thought he would be the right person for the job but unfortunately it didn't turn out that way. Obama had the opportunity to really unite this country in such a profound way, but instead he has done the opposite. We are so divided right now, everything has become about race, more than I've ever known in my lifetime."
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Dash also very publicly supported Southern chef Paula Deen, who was fired from 'The Food Network' after admitting to using the racial slur "ni**er" and plantation fantasies about having Black men dress in white shorts and bow-ties to serve food at a wedding reception.
She should fit right in at FOX News.
Neither Dash nor the network have confirmed the Page Six report.
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Living & Working From Home Is Absolutely Possible
Are you ready to do something that will make a difference in your life? We're here to help you! We have the plan, and the steps are all laid out. It's not a big secret. We know where you want to go, and if you follow the plan, you will succeed!


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A couple miles east of downtown Atlanta on the fringe of a historic blue-collar neighborhood, Home grown serves up satisfying Southern fare in an eclectic atmosphere.
Atlanta's crowded dining scene has no shortage of restaurants specializing in farm-to-table sourcing and new twists on Southern favorites. But many are expensive and require reservations.
Home grown offers locally sourced Southern dishes for breakfast and lunch in a quirky, no-frills setting that feels comfortable no matter who you are. The generous portions, low prices and dependably good food attract a delightful cross-section of Atlanta: older folks who lived in the Reynoldstown neighborhood before gentrification set in, tattooed young adults with big glasses and messy hair, young families and police officers.
On a recent Sunday morning, a hook-and-ladder truck was parked on the street outside as its crew of firefighters grabbed breakfast. A young boy eating with his dad in the main dining room climbed out of their booth to give a young woman his best wishes after her friends completed a spirited, almost gospel-like rendition of "Happy Birthday."
The breakfast menu is straightforward and satisfying, offering staples like biscuits, grits, eggs and breakfast meats, along with pancakes or french toast for those who have a sweet tooth in the morning. If you're hungrier, the fried pork chop and comfy chicken biscuit are both substantial and come smothered in a rich sausage gravy.
Lunch options change more frequently, and while they're more likely to have a quirky twist than the very standard breakfast options, they remain pretty traditional: meatloaf, pimento cheese, trout, and shrimp and grits, to name a few.
The front room is warm and inviting, with a handful of tables and a bar with stools where you can sit and read the paper or chat with other diners as you eat. On the wall is a framed menu signed by Clint Eastwood (his movie "Trouble with the Curve" shot scenes in the restaurant).
In the wood-paneled main dining room, four somewhat disturbing paintings along one wall immediately grab the eye. They feature four cartoon animals — a chicken, a pig, a cow and a fish — each of which drips blood after having cut part of its own body off and has a thought bubble featuring the body part prepared to eat. The pig, for example, holds a saw in one hand, his severed leg in the other and is thinking of a ham.
The other artwork in the room changes frequently but is generally some sort of funky take on folk art that you can buy off the walls.
The back room is also home to a small thrift store that welcomes diners to browse the T-shirts, postcards, dishes and assorted knick-knacks.
Home grown, which opened several years ago, will take you off the tourist route in Atlanta to a neighborhood that's transitioning from small factories and warehouses to lofts and creative workspaces. It's only open for breakfast and lunch, which leaves dinner open for one of the many other terrific restaurants the city has to offer.


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The Fool Looks Ahead
There's never a dull week on Wall Street. Let's go over some of the news that will shape the week to come.
The new trading week kicks off with Yum! Brands reporting fresh financials. The parent company of Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut has run into some hiccups in China lately, and that's a bigger part of the company's business than you probably think.
Maybe those Cool Ranch Doritos tacos -- they're coming soon, you know -- can save the day.
Infinera is one of the many companies reporting on Tuesday. Analysts see the digital optical networking specialist posting a quarterly loss of $0.06 a share, matching the deficit it served up a year earlier.
LeapFrog Enterprises hops up on Wednesday. The maker of electronic learning toys appears to have had a great holiday season. NPD Group's Retail Tracking Service, in ranking the best-selling toys of 2012, finds LeapFrog claiming three of the top four spots with its LeapPad Explorer, LeapPad2 tablet, and Explorer licensed software. Naturally, investors will want to see how all of this success translates into financial results, and that's what Wednesday will be all about.
Activision Blizzard comes to play on Thursday. The country's largest video-game maker reports at a relevant time. The industry has been sliding for the past three years, and a few companies had disappointing news for investors earlier this week.
It will also be interesting to see how the company's Call of Duty franchise is holding up, given the recent political scrutiny over violent video games.
Friday is usually quiet on the earnings front, but that won't stop Brookfield Infrastructure Partners from reporting. There are plenty of master limited partnerships out there yielding more than Brookfield's 4% these days, but the company's diversified investments in infrastructure -- from electricity to timber -- make it a well-rounded play for income investors.
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Late summer in the Midwest is tomato season. For tomato growers around that country, it's time to pick their bounty and calculate their earnings.
While sun and rain might be free, tomato farmers have to carefully weigh everything else they put in to growing their crop. Research and the development of new tools – from novel seed varieties resistant to diseases to additional fertilizers – has changed the input costs for growers.
U.S. farmers grow about $2 billion worth of tomatoes annually, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, though production numbers have steadily decreased over the past decade. In 2004, the U.S. produced 1.7 million tons of tomatoes. Last year, that dipped to 1.1 million tons.
While California and Florida account for almost two-thirds of U.S. production, Midwest tomato farmers grow millions of pounds of their own.
Wet summer
At Herman's Farm in St. Charles County, Mo., Elsie and Tom Goeke grow a variety called Red Deuce – and they're huge. Tom Goeke picks up a tomato the size of a small teapot just in from the field.
"Isn't that sad?" he says. "Look at that. How beautiful it is and it just split."
A crack runs the length of the tomato from top to bottom. Goeke says all of the rain this summer pushed the fruit to grow too quickly while it ripened on the vine.
"Now it's not good anymore and we just have to throw it away," he said. "But what a saint. Look how beautiful. Look how thick they are."
Labor costs down
Although the rain has cost the Goekes a few tomatoes, they've had a successful growing season so far. Tom Goeke says it costs him about $15,000 to put in an acre of tomatoes. This year he planted three acres. At about five thousand plants per acre, he's a midsized grower with at least 15,000 plants.
Walking through the rows of bushy green vegetation, he pulls away some of the branches to reveal bunches of thick, orange tomatoes a few days away from picking.
"Notice how thick they're hanging on here," he said. "We've been picking on this block of tomatoes for the last five weeks. And they're still producing."
Goeke grew up in a tomato farming family. He says the cost of labor has dropped dramatically since he was a kid thanks to advances in technology and equipment. Just a decade ago, he says, each tomato plant had to have its own a stake. Now they stake every few plants and run twine between them for support.
"There's only 20 percent of the labor that goes into raising this acre of tomatoes than there was 25 years ago," Goeke said.
Prices go up with technology
Not all costs have dropped, though. Seed that use to cost $16-an-ounce can go for 100 times that today.
"But now they've got so much more disease resistance built into them that you don't have to give them so much tender loving care that you did years ago because they were so touchy," Goeke said.
Advancements in fertilizer and fungicides have forced farmers to dig deeper into their wallets. Goeke says his chemical bill used to run him about $7,000 dollars for 30 acres. Now, that amount would only cover about eight acres.
"A sack of fertilizer, 20 years ago, was $5," he said. "Now it's $25. And it goes on and on."
Running a tomato farm is risky, Goeke says. A bad year of pests and you're out thousands of dollars. But, those pricier products help protect his livelihood by keeping his plants healthy and productive.
"If I average a buck to a buck and a half per pound – and I pretty much do – and if everything works out well – I don't have any hail or anything like that – I could possibly pull easily 50,000 pounds and actually gross that much money off an acre of tomatoes," he said.
That's 50,000 pounds per acre in a good year. Wholesale, each pound goes for $1.50. At the grocery store, though, you'd probably see his tomatoes priced at about $3.


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It's often said that you get what you pay for, but in the digital age, it's sometimes hard to see what you're buying. When you download a song, movie or ebook, you can certainly listen, watch or read - but if you can't hold these items in your hands, it's hard to feel any great sense of ownership
Indeed, you might argue that this is one of the reasons piracy is rife. Consumers simply don't perceive value in digital products, so they don't see why they shouldn't just have them for free.
As a result, there's a lot of debate about how content should be sold, leading companies to experiment with subscription models. Here, customers pay a flat fee (usually monthly) to have access to a specific or unlimited amount of material. It's an age-old model that conjures up images of magazines plopping regularly through letterboxes and paperboys lugging sackfuls of daily papers around.
In the digital sphere, one of the most high-profile exponents of this system is Spotify, which gives you limitless music for a fixed monthly fee. In the TV and movie world, Netflix and Lovefilm operate on similar lines. Furthermore, media-creation software giant Adobe recently announced a subscription plan that allows users to pay a monthly fee to access any of its applications, including its Audition audio editor. So, could this model work for other music software and soundware?
Subscription success
Perhaps the most obvious candidate for a subscription model would be a piece of music software that works online (you'd never really be able to 'own' that anyway). Enter PowerFX's Soundation Studio. Although this can be used by anyone, if you want the full experience, you must choose one of three subscription options. These add recording functionality and varying amounts of storage space and additional content.
We spoke to PowerFX's Bil Bryant about why he adopted this model. "With Soundation we are offering software as a service, and we knew we wanted to work from the freemium model," he says.
"We looked at different pricing structures and combined that with our PowerFX experience with soundware development and sales. This gave us a good idea of what our users would like and how much they could pay. Although we also have non-subscription-based offerings, our monthly subscription offering is our most successful."
The word 'freemium' is important here - Bryant feels that his pricing structure only works because, like Spotify, people can use his service up to a point without having to pay anything. "Our goal is to give everyone the opportunity to make digital music," he says. "No downloads, no barriers - just go use all the free features. You only pay if you want more sounds or functionality. Also, prior to Soundation Studio, sequencers online didn't really work, so it would be difficult to get people to even try it if we set up a pay barrier."
Pure gold
Soundware creator Puremagnetik also offers subscriptions. Its Micropaks are released to members on a monthly basis, then made available to anyone to buy as one-off purchases later on. Company founder and lead sound designer Micah Frank says that, this way, he can offer real value to his customers.
"We wanted to provide easily accessible sounds on a regular schedule and simultaneously create a new space for soundware distribution," he tells us. "The subscription model was an experiment at first, but we realised within a few months that it was working. The goal was to make it easy for people to sign up by offering 'no-brainer' prices for interesting, specialised content. I think the subscription model has worked very well, although more than half of our business is still à la carte."
It's important to note that Puremagnetik subscribers can keep their content even if they choose to cancel their membership. "I don't see any point in offering content that the user is suddenly locked out of," says Frank.
It's easy to see the logic in offering online software and samples on a subscription basis, but what of DAWs and plug-ins that install on your computer? Axis Plug-ins is the brainchild of Bastian Schnürle, and he's decided to offer his complete product range - currently comprising only the Inspektor Analyzing Suite, but due to grow soon, he says - for €79 a year.
He cites two reasons for choosing this model: piracy and sustainability. "I thought Axis Plug-ins could solve [the piracy] issue by providing a set of high-quality plug-ins for a small annual fee," says Schnürle. "A fee so small that even a musician who does not earn so much money can afford quality digital audio plug-ins and does not have to steal them."
On the issue of sustainability, Schnürle believes that, because of the constant OS/software update cycle, traditional pricing models can do serious damage to small-scale software companies.
"If a company has a lot of different plug-ins, it takes a long time to update them all, especially if it's a one-man-brand. The time the company uses for updating is lost for new developments, and new developments are the only income if updates are provided for free. This creates a vicious circle that kills the small company of a passionate developer."
Is it mine?
How does Schnürle respond to those who are uncomfortable with his model because they'd never feel like they actually 'owned' the software? "This is the better system for licensed goods like software or music," he says. "Your antivirus software is based on a subscription model. You may hear your music via a flat-rate provider and pay a monthly fee. If you are a scientist, you may use MATLAB, which is one of the most important pieces of engineering software in the world: the fee to use MATLAB is around $7000 per year. So why should it be different for digital audio plug-ins?"
Bil Bryant believes that, while the ownership issue is a barrier to be overcome, things could be changing. "I certainly understand that mentality, but I do think we are moving away from that mind-set, especially kids," he says. "Software and tech are developing at such a rapid pace - and some of these programs cost so much and can be rendered obsolete very quickly - that it is tough to make such a financial commitment."
Would it be feasible, then, for someone to release a subscription-based, hard drive-installing DAW? "I think yes, especially with new users," says Bryant. "They understand that there is a learning curve and many potential buyers are unsure if their skill or desire will justify the price."
Micah Frank also believes that things are changing. "Eventually, when the bulk of our CPU is remotely processed, the subscription model will be more prevalent," he says. It remains to be seen whether computer musicians are willing to buy into the subscription model but, as Bil Bryant notes, "access rather than ownership is a concept that is rapidly gaining speed".
This article originally appeared in issue 181 of Computer Music magazine.


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Jessica Chastain Wants to Know Why Marvel Hasn't Made a Scarlett Johansson 'Black Widow' Movie
The desire for (and subsequent lack of) a female-led superhero movie is a hot topic that continues to be debated. Actually, there really isn't much debate; we're all pretty much in agreement that there should be a female-led superhero movie. Well, you can add one more voice to the chorus of people shouting loudly for a female Marvel movie as two-time Oscar-nominee Jessica Chastain took time out from her current promotional tour to support the notion of a Scarlett Johansson-led Black Widow movie.
The Wrap spoke to Chastain (who was once almost a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a role in 'Iron Man 3') and asked about the lack of strong roles for women in Hollywood. That's was all she needed:
Where is the Scarlett Johansson superhero movie? I don't understand it, why is it taking so long for this? This woman clearly shows that people want to go see her in the movies. 'Lucy,' didn't it beat 'Hercules' by a lot opening weekend, when it was made for a lot less? She shows that she kicks ass, she's a great actress. 'Under the Skin' is an incredible film, and why are we still waiting for a go-ahead on a superhero movie starring Scarlett Johansson? To me, it's a no-brainer. You want to make money, put Scarlett Johansson in a superhero movie!
What she said.
(Props to Chastain on knowing her numbers: 'Lucy' has made $217 million worldwide on a reported $40 million budget, while 'Hercules' has made $174 million worldwide on a reported $100 million budget.)
It's something everyone seems to want, it's something that the numbers would seem to back up, so why are we still facing this issue? When we spoke to Marvel president Kevin Feige back in July about this issue, he told us, "We're not going to be swayed by the backlash," and remained resolute that they would like to eventually make a female-led superhero movie (whether that's a Black Widow movie or not), but they'd do that on their own timetable.
The old excuse from Marvel was that they only have two movies in any given year. But, in 2017 and 2018 they have three movies scheduled and there are rumors that they are looking to up that number in following years to have one Marvel movie every quarter. So, volume isn't an excuse any more. You've got the money and the real estate.
The other excuse, specifically regarding Black Widow, was what Marvel co-president Louis D'Esposito said: "With Widow what's great is the interaction with all the team members, and the question is whether we want to pluck her out of that." We'll admit that the chemistry between Johansson and Chris Evans in 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' was great, but why does that preclude Black Widow from getting her own movie? If you can pluck Thor out of the Avengers and give him his own film, why not her? We'd even argue that a Black Widow spinoff could be done much cheaper than your normal Marvel movie: think Marvel meets 'The Bourne Identity'.
Even Joss Whedon is bummed out about this: "It's stupid, and I'm hoping 'The Hunger Games' will lead to a paradigm shift. It's frustrating to me that I don't see anybody developing one of these movies. It actually pisses me off."
Joss is very much responsible for the how and why Black Widow is as enjoyable to watch as he is and hopefully he has the clout to help move that needle. The only plausible excuse at this point is that, with the impending birth of her first child, Johansson just isn't interested in a Black Widow movie. And, that's cool and we'd totally respect that. But, if that really is the case, it's incumbent upon Marvel to work on development of that Captain Marvel movie and get us that female-led superhero movie we're all jonesing for.


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#45: How can I connect to multiple servers automatically? How does the Gamers.IRC auto connect work?
The command to connect to a new server is: /server [-emnsarpfocz] <server/groupname> [port] [password] [-i nick anick email name] [-jn #channel pass]
Example: "/server -m irc.quakenet.org", where -m means a new window. The port is optional here, because then the default port 6667 is used.
For more information about this topic enter "/help /server".
You can do it by clicking, too: Alt+O -> Connect -> Servers -> Choose server -> Double-click the server -> Click "Connect to server".
If you want to connect to this server on every start, please right-click into the status window of the server and click "Always connect to servername?"
Gamers.IRC will afterwards connect to this server on every start and even prefer German respectively European servers. If you want to remove the server from the auto connect, click "Always connect to servername?" again.
If you use the Gamers.IRC autoconnect, UNCHECK the following checkbox: Alt+O -> Connect -> Options -> Connect on startup


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Welcome to the Londonderry Commerce and Visitors Center! Our staff, volunteers, and members are here to show you why we think Londonderry, New Hampshire is the best place to Live, Work and Play!
Londonderry, New Hampshire has a close connection with the land. Our Agrarian roots still run deep with four major farms and dozens of boutique farming operations, all open to the public. With more open space preservation than any other community in Southern New Hampshire, the view when you visit Londonderry is one that will captivate and connect you with the land we call home.
You too have a close connection with Londonderry! With two exits on Route 93 and just 45 minutes from Boston, your short drive will lead you to scenic roadways and adventure. More than 1,000 acres feature hiking, walking and cross country ski trails that are maintained year round for you to enjoy.
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Daniel Inouye, a war hero and the second-longest serving senator, died Monday evening of respiratory complications at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, with his wife and son by his side.
The Hawaii senator's last word was "Aloha," and when asked recently how he wanted to be remembered, according to a statement on his website, he replied: "I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay."
Sen. Harry Reid announced his colleague's passing in remarks Monday evening on the Senate floor.
"I've never known anyone like Dan Inouye. No one else has," Reid said. "The kindness that he has shown me for my time here is something I will cherish always. A man who has lived and breathed the Senate. If there ever were a patriot, Dan Inouye was that patriot."
President Barack Obama remembered the senator as "an American hero" who worked to forge bipartisan consensus throughout his political career. Inouye was "not just a colleague and a mentor, but someone revered by all of us lucky enough to know him," the president said in a statement.
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Serving since 1963, the 88-year-old Hawaii Democrat was the second-longest serving senator (behind the late Sen. Robert Byrd) and President Pro Tempore of the chamber, which made him third in line for succession to the presidency.
He was a war hero who survived the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, and went on to fight in Italy during World War II where he received a Medal of Honor for directing his platoon successfully through a hail of gunfire and refusing to evacuate even after he suffered a gunshot wound and shattered arm.
Fellow Medal of Honor recipient and NBC News military analyst Col. Jack Jacobs said he knew Inouye well and recalled him as "a gentleman and a patriot."
He added that Inouye's WWII unit was "composed almost entirely of Japanese-Americans, most of whom we had put in concentration camps and classified them as enemy aliens," yet it was also "the most highly decorated organization in the Army during WWII."
Inouye was Hawaii's first-ever Congressman following statehood in 1959 and a vocal advocate of veterans' rights.
During his decades-long tenure at the Senate, he served as Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and was a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, Watergate Committee and the committee formed to investigate the Iran Contra Affair.
His first wife Margaret "Maggie" Awamura preceded him in death. He is survived by his wife, Irene Hirano Inouye, his son Daniel Ken Inouye Jr., his daughter-in-law Jessica, his granddaughter Maggie and step-daughter Jennifer Hirano.


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An exciting group of international photographers and filmmakers joins the Canon EMEA Ambassador Programme for 2020, the biggest expansion in the initiative's 12-year history. More than 50 new professionals have been introduced, taking the total number of Canon Ambassadors to over 100.
The Canon EMEA Ambassador Programme brings together leading photographers and videographers from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). They are chosen from a wide range of genres including news, documentary, wildlife, weddings, portraits, sports and more. Ambassadors represent Canon by giving talks and workshops, use Canon kit to shoot inspirational projects, and give regular feedback on products, based on first-hand experience.


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Students prepare to capture a photographic day in the life.
On Oct. 6, Calvin students, faculty and staff are invited to show what a typical Wednesday in their lives looks like. From 12:01 a.m. all the way until 11:59 p.m., members of the Calvin community, both on and off campus, will be taking photographs left and right and uploading them to a Picassa Web album.
"We want people to feel free to get up on Oct. 6 and just start snapping images," said Myrna Anderson, managing editor of Calvin's News and Stories website. "We won't pre-edit the images—we welcome all pictures that convey a day in the life of a student or faculty member."
Wide-open Wednesday
The event, titled "Calvin in 24," was intentionally scheduled on an otherwise empty day.
"There wasn't any key event that would monopolize the pictures," explained Matt Kucinski, senior editor of News and Stories. "If Streetfest or Mudbowl were that day, we would get an overwhelming number of pictures from that event. We wanted a day that could show a typical Calvin routine."
"We just want to see what life at Calvin looks like, whether that's eating popcorn in the dorms, going to class, playing soccer or eating in the dining halls," Anderson said.
Kucinski looks forward to seeing the photos people submit: "It's a good way to get an authentic picture of what Calvin is like. All too often, schools hire professionals to take perfectly lit pictures. We want to see students' snapshots—even if they're out-of-focus, blurry, or not perfectly composed."
Watch the gallery grow
"Calvin in 24" is also a good community event, said Anderson: "The Picassa photo gallery will grow as photos are uploaded. You can watch it unfold in real time." The event will also make students aware of the opportunities available to them at Calvin, said Kucinski: "Students will get to see what other students are doing on campus, off campus, and around the world in places like Hungary."
Students, faculty and staff can win a variety of prizes through "Calvin in 24," including a Flip Video Camcorder, one of four pairs of reserved tickets to The Rivalry, a night's stay at the Prince Conference Center and the privilege of hosting Joust, the Calvin mascot, at the event of your choice. "The best [prizes] are awarded by random drawing," said Anderson, "so all you have to do to be eligible is submit pictures. (Other prizes in the contest will be judged by committee.)
"Calvin in 24" is the brainchild of new communications and marketing director Tim Ellens. "We recognized the worth of the project, and several groups have been working on it for months now," Anderson said. Partnering with communications and marketing on the event are staff members from student life, student development, student senate and young alumni.
The event's website has instructions on how to upload your pictures on Oct. 6. It also features a list of possible shots to help students, faculty and staff start thinking about what they will photograph when Oct. 6 arrives.


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End of Gaza war doesn't translate into peace
World powers are not rushing headlong into the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate
Jerusalem: A week after the guns fell silent in the Gaza war, Israel and the Palestinians seem to have little appetite or incentive for a return to U.S.-sponsored peace and statehood talks that collapsed five months ago.
With conflicts raging in Ukraine, Iraq and Syria - and the future of the Gaza Strip largely uncharted by a broadbrush Egyptian-mediated ceasefire deal - world powers also are not rushing headlong into the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate.
The parties themselves, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bickering governing coalition and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, are on a collision course over threatened Palestinian unilateral moves toward statehood and exploration of war crimes prosecution against Israel in the absence of direct talks.
Israel drew Palestinian and international criticism on Sunday by announcing a major appropriation of occupied land in the West Bank, the most significant such move in 30 years.
As head of a governing coalition divided over trading territory for peace, Netanyahu is now speaking, in amorphous terms, of an alternative route towards ending decades of conflict - a "new horizon" - or possible regional alliance with moderate Arab countries alarmed, like Israel, by radical Islam.
Closer to home and with the Gaza situation still in flux, there is nothing on the immediate horizon as far as peacemaking with Abbas is concerned, Israeli government sources said.
Under the Egyptian-brokered truce agreement, Israel and the Palestinians agreed to address complex issues such as Hamas's demands for a Gaza seaport and the release of Palestinian prisoners via indirect talks starting within a month.
With the start of those negotiations still up in the air, Netanyahu wants to see whether Abbas takes over responsibility from Hamas for administering Gaza's borders and that measures are taken to prevent the group from smuggling in weaponry.
Netanyahu, who appears to be weathering an approval rating plunge after the Gaza war ended without a clear victor, took a swipe at Abbas last week, summing up a conflict which the Palestinian leader persistently tried to bring to an end.
"Abu Mazen has to choose which side he is on," Netanyahu told a news conference, using Abbas's nickname.
The comment harked back to Israel's decision in April to cut off peace talks with Abbas after he clinched a unity deal with Hamas, a bitter rival that had seized the Gaza Strip from his Fatah forces in 2007.
Those negotiations, on creating a Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, were already going nowhere, with Palestinians pointing to expanding Israeli settlement on land they claim as their own and balking at Israel's demand to recognize it as the Jewish homeland.
In an editorial laden with scepticism, Israel's liberal Haaretz newspaper questioned whether "as in the past" Netanyahu's remarks on casting a regional peace net, "are only empty slogans".
Some of his cabinet ministers are also pressing Netanyahu to get moving on a wider track.
"We cannot and will not allow a situation whereby this ceasefire is the beginning of the countdown to the next round of fire. If we don't take the diplomatic initiative, this is exactly what will happen," Finance Minister Yair Lapid said.
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Israel's chief negotiator in now-dormant talks with the Palestinians, said: "(Netanyahu) has to be put to the test on this."
Livni, speaking on Israel Radio, said Israel should "create a front with Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia - those countries threatened by all of those beheaders running around the region".
But, she said, "they can cooperate with us only if there is a basic minimum of a peace process - dialogue with the moderate elements in the Palestinian Authority".
In the past, Netanyahu has expressed little interest in embracing a regional peace plan, such as the 2002 Arab initiative that offered normalized ties with Israel if it withdrew fully from territory captured in a 1967 war.
But last year, he signaled in a speech to parliament a readiness to consider the proposal, raised at an Arab League summit 12 years ago, as long as it did not contain "edicts".
Any land-for-peace moves would elicit even more dissent from right-wingers in his government who have been vocal over Netanyahu's reluctance to heed their calls during the Gaza war for a full-scale invasion to crush Hamas.
For now, he appears to be in little danger of seeing his political partnerships unravel.
About a month into the war, 77 percent of Israelis surveyed in a Haaretz-Dialog poll described Netanyahu's performance during the conflict as either good or excellent. That figure dropped to around 50 percent after the ceasefire was announced.
But the snap poll taken a day after the truce went into effect showed that despite his flagging popularity, he continued to top, by a wide margin, the list of politicians whom Israelis believed were most suited to lead them as prime minister.
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OK here's where the math comes into action.
So if you are buying 100 grs (most often the case in patisseries) you will be getting around 3.3 ounces (just a bit under 1/4 of a pound and quite a managable amount to buy without costing an arm and a leg etc.).
But here is another factor just to confuse you a bit. Most of the better patisseries will have a ready made pack of 100 grs waiting for you, so you can put away your calculators and start munching. Usually you can choose the flavors you prefer.
You will be tested on this tomorrow class, so please review your notes carefully. Say after me please, san gram (cent gram).
MERCI et BONJOUR!


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Some folks' answer to wallet security is chaining it to their belts. Google's is to chain it to the cloud.
The Search Giant added some security features to its Google Wallet product last week intended to make it safer for consumers to use. For example, credit card information no longer resides in the Google Wallet mobile app. Its new home is in the cloud, in a Google online wallet.
What lives in the mobile app is a wallet ID. When a purchase is made from the wallet, the ID travels to Google's online servers, which finish the transaction with the credit card information stored in the mobile walllet's online counterpart.
That can make the phone more secure, according to Robin Dua, head of product management for Google Wallet. "There doesn't need to be connectivity between the phone and the cellular network in order to stop transactions from taking place," he told TechNewsWorld.
If a phone is lost or stolen, the owner of the phone can go online and put a block on all transactions from the phone, he explained.
What's more, he added, "When connectivity comes back to that phone, the wallet application will be reset and any information stored on the device related to the application would be deleted."
The new security features make the wallet a lot safer, according to McAfee Labs mobile security researcher Jimmy Shah. "They make the wallet much less of a useful target for an attacker," he told TechNewsWorld.
Big Data Meets Big Threats
Malware threats have been growing at an astounding rate in recent times. For example, Trend Micro notes that in 2008, it found about 1 million malware samples. In the first eight months of this year alone, it's tracking 30 million unique threats.
With that in mind, the company will be announcing this week an expansion of its Smart Protection Network. The cloud-based network, which is used by the company's consumer and and business products, is designed to nip security threats in cyberspace before they reach their intended targets.
The new version of the security scheme will enlarge its advanced big-data analytic capabilities that can identify new security threats across a broad range of data sources to stop threats in their tracks.
"We have the largest big-data analytics threat intelligence network in the world," Trend Micro Vice President for Cybersecurity Tom Kellermann boasted to TechNewsWorld.
"We've essentially sent the brain of Trend Micro to get its doctorate in cyber self-defense," he explained. "That's what we're achieving with this big data analytics framework and the actionable, global threat intelligence it provides all of our users."
How big is the "big data" Kelllermann is talking about? Trend Micro estimates that it identifies and blocks more than 200 million threats a day, or more than 2,300 threats a second.
Free Attack Surface Tool Released
Microsoft released version 1.0 of its Attack Surface Analyzer last week. The tool is designed to help developers understand how installation of an application can change the attack surface of Windows.
A number of improvements have been made in the tool, which is available as a free download from Microsoft. False positives have been reduced, for instance, and the tool's Graphic User Interface performs better.
While some security tools use signatures and known vulnerabilities for their attack surface analyses, Microsoft's tool looks for classes of weaknesses when application are installed. It also identifies in its reports changes made to a system that could effect its security profile. Those changes include alterations to files, registry keys, services, ActiveX controls, listening ports and other things affecting a system's attack surface.
Developers should find the software a handy tool for making systems that use their products more secure.
Breach Diary
- July 28: Petco informed employees that five laptops containing personal information about them were stolen from the offices of the auditors of the company's 401(K) plan. Information included names and Social Security numbers. The number of affected employees was not released by Petco.
- July 29: Korean police arrested two men for allegedly stealing and selling to telemarketers the personal information of 8.7 million customers of KT, a wireless phone carrier. Information included the name, mobile phone number, membership number, personal identification number and mobile phone serial number of each subscriber.
- July 31: Dropbox reported that a compromised account of one of its employees was used to mount a spam campaign against some of its users. A document with user email addresses in it was stolen from the account and used as a mailing list by the spammers.
- July 31: Oregon Health & Science University Hospital began notifying patients that a USB drive containing information for more than 14,000 patients was stolen. None of the information on the drive is the kind used for identity theft, the university said. It added that nearly all the data was password protected and all of it was in a format for software not commonly found on personal computers.
- Aug. 2: LinkedIn reported it spent from US$500,000 to $1 million on computer forensics following a breach of its systems in June that exposed on a Russian hacker site the hashed passwords of 6.5 million of its members. It added that it expects to spend another $2 million to $3 million to beef up its security this year.
- Aug. 2: A New Hampshire man filed a lawsuit in a California court against Yahoo for failing to adequately protect his personal information during a data breach of the company's systems in July that resulted in the posting to the Internet information of 450,000 user accounts. The man did not disclose the damage settlement he is seeking from Yahoo.
- Aug. 2: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged that a data breach has exposed the Social Security and banking information of almost 8,000 people, most of them current employees.
- Aug. 16: Call for speakers closes for RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco.
- Aug. 20-23: Gartner Catalyst Conference. San Diego, Calif. Standard price: $2,295.
- Aug. 23: Washington D.C. Tech-Security Conference. L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, 480 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, D.C.
- Oct. 9-11: Crypto Commons. Hilton London Metropole, UK. Early bird price (by Aug. 10): Pounds 800, plus VAT. Discount registration (by Sept. 12): Pounds 900. Standard registration: Pounds 1,025.
- Oct. 16-18: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, Raleigh, N.C.
- Oct. 25-31 Hacker Halted Conference 2012. Miami, Fla. Sponsored by EC-Council. Registration: $2,799-$3,599.


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On August 24, 1867, Johns Hopkins incorporated the two institutions which bear his name: Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital. The original members of the Boards of Trustees for the two institutions were named in the Certificate of Incorporation. The records of the Board of Trustees span the years 1867 through 2012, although, with the exception of the bound volumes of minutes, relatively little exists for the years prior to 1925. The records document the activities of the...
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Handmade Silver Natural Stone Framed Art 5″x 5″
Handmade Silver Stone Heart Framed art, 3D wall art, 5″x5″ frame art, Wedding gift, Engagement gift or Valentine's gift
This is a cute silver heart that I made using painted natural stones.
I like to create a unique art using different techniques and materials.
The heart is set in a box frame with a glass front. It is free standing or can be hung on the wall.
All my pictures are created and fixed with the use of high strength glue and pieces been carefully and securely placed on a strong and quality paper background.
Please note that every artwork is unique and might be slightly different from the picture. Stones and driftwood used for my pictures are natural pieces and applique is free hand design so no two pictures are exactly the same.
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Kelley Paul had gone to bed Tuesday night as usual, with her cellphone set on "Do Not Disturb," except for family and close friends whose calls would always go through.
That's why, when Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul tried to reach his wife early Wednesday morning using a borrowed phone, the call went straight to voicemail. Paul had left his own phone in the baseball dugout he had abandoned when the shooting began.
It was after a neighbor started banging on the front door of the Pauls' Louisville home that Kelley learned of the rampage at the Alexandria, Virginia, baseball diamond where her husband and others were practicing for the annual congressional game between Republicans and Democrats.
On this particular day, the gunman was hunting Republicans.
In an email exchange with Kelley, a friend since last year's presidential campaign, she told me of waking up to the sound of loud knocking -- the shooting took place shortly after 7 a.m. -- and finding her best friend at the door. Fearful that Kelley might read or hear the news through some form of media, the neighbor had rushed over to be by her side.
"Thank G0D, because my first three texts were along the lines of, 'Is Rand OK??'" said Kelley in an email. "I would have flipped out."
Such moments, doubtless, were taking place all over the country as family and friends wondered if their representative, senator, loved ones or friends had been in the line of fire. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who remained in critical condition at this writing, was near second base fielding balls when he was hit. Most are familiar by now with the details, especially the acts of heroism by Capitol Police officers who were attached to Scalise. Sen. Paul noted in retrospect that the event might have been a massacre had it not been for Scalise's security detail.
And, yet, in some wretched irony, it was Scalise who absorbed the worst of the gunman's rage when a single bullet pierced his hip, shattering bones and ripping through organs, leaving the congressman fighting for his life.
Perhaps because I know Scalise, this particular horror hit hard. Kelley and I shared our emotional exhaustion and sorrow, as well as fear. It isn't only the terrible suffering of Scalise or the others wounded that day. It's the cumulative effect of so much violence pounding us from all directions, day after day.
What is the tipping point for the human psyche, when too many becomes too much? For a lot of us, the psychological trauma began with the blunt force of 9/11. From then, humanity's death spiral has seemed unrelenting. From the first beheading by the Islamic State to the mock severed head of President Trump, a malevolent spirit seems to have penetrated the air we breathe.
Yet, we defend our great nation as the best there is. This is certainly true if you happen to be a Syrian refugee or a survivor of slaughter in South Sudan. But is this really the best we can do?
I'm not much interested in debating gun control or assigning blame. The media didn't open fire on that baseball field, nor did Donald Trump. Some horrible guy did it. He was apparently political, based on his social-media ramblings against Republicans. But it's highly doubtful that he was reacting to some random act of punditry or a presidential tweet, maddening though they can be.
More likely, he found the impetus to act out his narcissistic rage in the same interior space that other mass murderers mine for imagined meaning. Do we need a kinder, gentler nation, as former President George H.W. Bush put it way back in the relatively innocent 1980s? Yes, we do.
So, let's.
We can't un-crazy crazy, but we can each try to stem the madness. It begins with simply caring: By looking up from our cellphones and making eye contact; by asking the checkout girl about her day; thanking the garbage collector; doing favors without a scorecard; giving away money because someone needs it more.
Sometimes a small gesture of kindness can change someone's day -- or life. If the cumulative effect of evil acts brings us down, mightn't the cumulative effect of good deeds lift us up? Madmen likely won't abandon history anytime soon, but the least the rest of us can do is better -- for Team Scalise and for America.


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Jenny Simpson after the women's 1500m at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Moscow 2013 (© Getty Images)
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the USA is currently the top nation in the world for strength in depth in the women's middle distance events and leading the way is Jenny Simpson.
"It's an incredible time to be a US woman racing in the middle-distances," reflected Moscow 2013 1500m silver medallist Simpson.
"Every race in the US and abroad over 1500m is likely to have a competitive and deep field. Each race is difficult and every win is meaningful and I think the domestic rivalry has elevated all of us and made our event a lot more exciting to watch."
No country fielded more finalists in the 800m and 1500m at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow and the USA finished the season with three athletes in the world's top 10 in the 800m and four in the 1500m on the world season lists.
Mary Cain, the 17-year-old phenomenon, joined Simpson in the final in Moscow to become the youngest ever World 1500m finalist while Brenda Martinez ensured the USA would leave the World Championships for the first time with medals in both middle-distance events when taking the bronze in the 800m.
Simpson jokes this unparalleled depth does have a slight downside though: "The most practical impact is there's never an easy win!"
Her path to stardom followed the tried-and-tested route of the collegiate system. The 27-year-old studied economics and political science at the University of Colorado where she predominantly ran the 3000m Steeplechase, in which she won a hat-trick of NCAA titles.
Barrier breaker
It was over the barriers where Simpson initially made her mark internationally.
The highlight was a fifth-place finish at the 2009 World Championships in a still-standing US record of 9:12.50 which ranks her 11th on the world all-time lists. However, it was a race in the build-up to Berlin which proved the seminal moment in mapping out the next four years of her career.
"I entered the 1500m at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene (the IAAF Diamond League meeting on the US west coast) with the singular goal of trying to break the collegiate record at the time of 4:06," remembers Simpson. She did indeed achieve this, slashing her best from 4:08.38 to 3:59.90.
"My effort at Pre was a paradigm shift for my career in several ways. It certainly changed how the sport perceived me. I was no longer just a steeplechaser. It also, more slowly, changed how I perceived myself. As the achievement of breaking four minutes as a collegiate slowly settled on me, I began to realize I could have the opportunity to set the course of my career.
"I'd thought of myself as a steeplechaser with a future in the 5000m and 10,000m but after that race, there just seemed to be less limitations and more possibilities for my future in the sport."
In 2011, she embarked on her first full season over 1500m. She finished second at the US Championships to seal qualification for her third World Championships and while her results were solid in the run-up to Daegu, they did not indicate Simpson would be vying for the podium.
"I remember, again, having a single goal which was to make the final," she recalled. "I knew it was going to take all of my focus and training to make it through two rounds and into the final. I was tested that year in a new way and I was so proud to be on the starting line the evening of the final.
"Having achieved this goal, I think I was really relaxed going into the final and I remember saying to my coach, very pragmatically, on the way to the track, 'well, 25 per cent of us will leave tonight with a medal.' I really didn't think in that moment I was going to be one of that 25 per cent, but I wasn't counting myself out either."
Simpson's high-powered finish was the decisive factor in an untidy final. A late charge elevated the middle-distance newcomer from fourth at the top of the home straight to first and she became the first US winner of the 1500m since Mary Decker fended off a memorable last-gasp dive from Zamira Zaytseva at the inaugural 1983 IAAF World Championships.
This upward trajectory momentarily stalled as Simpson admitted she over-trained in her bid to arrive at the Olympic Games in optimum shape. Her sprint finish, the potent hallmark of her performance at the 2011 World Championships, deserted her in the semi-finals where she finished last. "The pressure and pageantry of the Olympics in comparison to the World Champs is a different animal altogether," Simpson said candidly.
Confidence boost
However, she immediately bounced back with her most consistent season to date and a solid off-season provided the groundwork:
"There were so many differences between the years' preparation that I think it's difficult to distinguish exactly what had me more prepared for this year. I can say though the 2013 formula had me extremely confident and really happy throughout the racing season."
This confidence was palpable.
She executed her heat and semi-final with the nous of a seasoned veteran and while her tactical approach in the final was in stark contrast to her sit-and-kick ploy in Daegu, Simpson's razor-sharp racing instincts bore rich dividends.
"I didn't go into the final in Moscow with the plan of leading. However, I knew that being drawn in lane one was going to be a little tricky at the start. I think being in that position was a blessing in disguise because it forced me to be very decisive early on in the race.
"I decided I was good enough to control the entire race and I felt more comfortable doing that then letting someone else take over. I think that conviction early on set the tone for my entire effort and I think it put me in the best possible position to try to win."
The authoritative manner of Simpson's tactical display in Moscow was impressive, and indicative of her growing maturity at the event.
"I think my racing skills come a little naturally but are also learned. The close proximity combined with the physical edge we are racing at is a really unique experience to the 800m and 1500m. There is so much less thinking involved and a lot more instinct. I think some racers naturally have good instinct when it comes to strategy but you can always get better.
"I sometimes watch race footage and workout with groups of people to learn and apply tactics but simulating race scenarios is nearly impossible. You get better by doing it. "
Even though Simpson didn't come away with the top prize in Moscow, with the plaudits going to Sweden's dominant Abeba Aregawi, she still reflects on the season with just as much pride as two years before.
"In 2011, I was still relatively new to middle-distance racing and having an unexpected win; there are few things more thrilling and more memorable in one's career. 2013 was about training and racing like I was one of the best in the world.
"It was a completely different tone to my preparation and a much more mature approach to planning my racing schedule. Racing as a professional and in Diamond League races was new and exciting to me in 2011, but by 2013 every single effort was about how it was going to get me to Moscow ready to win a medal."
Simpson achieved this objective but without a global outdoor championship to focus on in 2014, she is looking forward to racing frequently although her plans aren't yet finalised.
"It will be a fun year with the opportunity to focus on new experiences and prioritise regular season races. Having never raced World Indoors, World Relays or run early Diamond League races, it will be more a matter of narrowing down my focus.
"I can't do it all, but I'm always tempted to try!"
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[Itay] has a friend who works in a rented office where the parking lot is secured by a remote-controlled gate. Unfortunately, while his friend shares an office with several people, they only received a single remote. To help his friends out, he built a small device that triggers the remote control whenever a phone call is received.
The remote modification was rather straightforward. He simply opened the device, adding a single wire to each button terminal. Rather than connect to the remote using wires, he decided to fit it with what looks like a scavenged DC power jack. The ring detector circuitry was constructed and stuffed in a small phone box, which is connected to the remote using a DC power plug. It's a great solution to the problem, but let's just hope no one gets a hold of the phone number they used for the trigger!
There are plenty of pictures on his site, as well as video of the ring detector being tested. Unfortunately [Itay] lost the original schematics for the circuit, so you will have to flesh that part out on your own if you wish to build a similar device.
Keep reading to see a few videos of the remote in testing and in use.


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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
-Alfred Whitney Griswold